Zap - another month has gone by. We're great at this blogging thing, aren't we? After Seth left the Outerthought HQ's building back to his homestead, May remained ever so busy.
Marc and Bruno, together with Jeroen and Ives from partner Schaubroeck have been working hard on the 0.2 release of Kauri, to the end that Bruno released a first runnable binary preview release on June 5th. Try it and tell us about it!
Paul, on his merry own, delivered a knowledge base system based on Daisy for Mitsubishi Equipment Europe in Almere, Holland and has started working on the last phase of the Competency Management system we're preparing for the Canadian Coast Guard College, and Karel has been fighting various assorted Java plug-in bugs in various assorted browser and OS combinations, preparing some very cool new feature for Daisy 2.3.
Alongside all this work, Freya joined us beginning of May as it became clear the success of Daisy and our other ventures was requiring extra staffing. Freya is currently working part-time and combining her learning curve of Daisy and related technologies with teaching students Java at the University College West Flanders. Her first learning project is to integrate Mollom spam checking with the commenting facility we're using for this very blog. Welcome, Freya!
Business- and strategy-wise, we have joined the new Gent BC initiative - a gathering of innovative organizations based in or around Ghent, and I've been so lucky to present at the annual V-ICT-OR conference. V-ICT-OR is the Flemish member society of IT folks at the local administrations, and part of my luckiness was that this presentation bought me the lottery ticket to meet and impress Richard Steel, president of the English (hence much larger) sister organization Socitm. Which means I'll have another go at my presentation during their annual conference as well.
Adding onto that, there's some interesting pre-sales things going on, however I won't try our luck and shut up about those until we got the signed PO. ;-)